Slavery argument.

 Slavery good or bad?

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Did you know Slavery has been around for thousands of years. Romans, Greeks and Vikings have all been involved in this trade. However the British Empire and Americans also started this in later life thinking it was a normal thing to do! . Slavery created vast wealth for many countries and cities. They even created banks out of the money earned from slavery. It  took a brave and resilient man in the 1870’s William Wilberforce started a campaign to abolish slavery. Everyone had their reasons to either defend or hate it.

At the time here seemed to be many good points for slavery. Ships captains who sold the slaves received a vast amount of money. Additionally the slaves were given  food and shelter, plus a place to sleep. The money that the people got for selling slaves was put towards cheap goods to trade for more slaves. The rest of the money went to the cities so they could produce banks and new buildings.

Many people who had so much to lose made up things about slavery, saying that the Africans are happy being slaves that the Africans have attractive apartments and get to sing and dance and make pots with beads that are provided for them. Furthermore they said that they got fed special African food and on an evening typical European food. Even the bible was used to defend slavery saying that Abraham agreed with it.

There were lots of reasons used by the anti-slavery group. It took a few years for people to understand what was going on because of all the lies and deceit from the slave traders. No one realised what the slaves were going through, they got tortured. Therefor you shouldn’t follow the people who are in the wrong.

Slavery is still around nowadays but not as bad as it used to be. It’s now been abolished. If it wasn’t for William Wilberforce African slavery would still be around and the world would be a different place. It took hundred of years to argue the case that it was wrong.

By Katie Harrison

 

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